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Movable Distance: Technology, Nearness and Farness

January 20th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Introduction: Detours on the road to abolishing distance
“The frank abolition of all distances brings no nearness… Everything gets lumped together into uniform distancelessness.”
(Heidegger, 1971, pp. 165, 166)
Heidegger’s remark seems to call attention to the fact that technology’s much celebrated victory over distance fails to deliver everything it promised. While technology might be able to facilitate [...]

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